Holiday (un)cheer...

The Harlem Children's Chorus - Black Christmas
Centro-Matic - Christmas 83
Rocket From The Crypt - Cancel Christmas
Rheostatics - Aliens (Christmas 1988)
Supersuckers - Call It Christmas
Murder City Devils - 364 Days
Kal Calhoone - Winter's Womb

Pixies Live

The Pixies are offering a free download of their 2004 set from Coachella. They'll have some more great goodies to come at their website

the simpsons...

this is a pretty dark opening for sure... courtesy of Banksy

Blackbird and the Fox

New song from the upcoming Twilight Singers album...

so that was summer...

I am a neglectful one when it comes to this blog... I've been doing lots of stuff though. Seen some great shows (Teenage Fanclub, Breathe Owl Breathe, Kiss, Jon Spencer, Autolux), a crap load of movies at the Toronto film festival, went to Hamilton, ate some great things, spent time with great people, wore some leather, biked lots and many things I'm either not at liberty to discuss or just don't feel like making public. But anyways, as usual my intent is to put more stuff up on here... I repeat, my intent.

Well, here are some songs old and new at least

Weinland - Sunken Eyes
Reid Paley - Take What You Want
Neil Diamond - I'll Come Running
Joseph Spence - Brownskin Gal
Karen Dalton - Same Old Man
Mel Dune - Time Hangs Heavy On Your Hands
Standard Fare - Secret Little Sweetheart
The Heathens - Sucker Or A Lover

This is what you miss if you don't go see Breathe Owl Breathe... a snorkling mask. Somehow they make it work.



This is possibly the best video ever (and not safe for work at all unless you have a really great job)

up and running

After some misfires I found a file hosting site for now... so here are some tunes.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Come Undone
From the new album Hawk (out this Tuesday), they're also hitting the road in sept/oct.

Land Of Talk - Blangee Blee
Their official website is pretty amazing right now... Cloak & Cypher is also out Tuesday and in some special formats here

Boris & Ian Astbury - Rain
Not sure what I was expecting, but the BXI ep just kind of sounds like mediocre stoner rock msotly. Either way this sludgy version of Rain is worth a listen.

The Sight Below - No Place For Us (Eluvium Remix)
Droney spacey guitars meets droney spacey piano...

Fanfarlo - A Minor Place (Live Bonnie Prince Billy Cover)
A nice cover from a band with some of the ugliest merch I've ever seen.

world cup

I am by no means a soccer fan but the world cup is pretty fun this time around. Anything that gives me an excuse to be out drinking at 10am and have it be socially acceptable (Germany vs Argentina on Saturday) is okay with me. Also this year my neighborhood is much quieter since Italy, Portugal and Brazil got knocked out.

Netherlands are playing today and I'm just hoping the TSN website can top the headlines they came up with for the last game...

UPDATE... here are some of the headlines from the game... shame on them for re-using headlines. I guss there's only so many puns they could think of.

a new mix

Well, figured I'd start off the month right by posting something. Now, my fileden account is dead so all the old links won't work anymore... looking for a new hosting solution now but in the meantime here's a mix of stuff I'm liking for strolling around in the sunshine.



Get it HERE

1 Lilium - Right Where You Are
2 Woven Hand - His Rest
3 Delta Spirit - Salt in the Wound
4 Chère Françoise - Coeur Volage
5 Voxtrot - The Dream Lives Of Ordinary People
6 Walter Schreifels - Reqiuem
7 Unkle - Joy Factory feat. Autolux
8 Cate Le Bon - Burn Until The End
9 We Were Promised Jetpacks - With The Benefit Of Hindsight
10 Stafraenn Hakon - Tætir Rækju II
11 Television Personalities - Diary Of A Young Man
12 The Black Keys - These Days

scary

this is scary for a couple of reasons... both her opinions and that way too close camera work.



Also scary is to think what would have happened had there been no helmet:

a hobo and a shotgun

Wendall Davis is Swell

I've posted stuff from Swell a few times before and I was very happy to get a link in my inbox to download a new album from the man behind that band, David Freel. This one is being released under the name Wendall Davis and if you go to their website you can download the album... I suggest you make a donation so more things like this can happen, it's completely worth it too. Here's a track from the album: Powers To Please

and some other stuff....
Nina Nastasia - You're A Holy Man (new album Outlaster coming June 7th from Fat Cat)

The Drums - You're The One That Makes Me Happy

Besnard Lakes - Glass Printer

Best Coast

Playing Toronto tonight... make it out to The Garrison if you can.

Best Coast - The Road

sweet sonofabitch...

The Double Down sandwich from KFC
540 calories, 32 grams of fat and 1,380 milligrams of sodium

Sadly this will not be available in Canada. God Bless America for having the things I don't actually want (and slightly repulsed by), but am happy to know they exist.

This is Pop

here's an assortment of tunes... mostly decent I'd say.
Dr. Dog - Where'd All The Time Go
Feathership - The Waterwell
Land Of Talk - May You Never
The Radio Dept - You Stopped Making Sense
Standard Fare - Dancing
The Novels - Big Run
The Leisure Society - We Were Wasted

And here's a little clip someone put together for a Leisure Society song...

Which then led to this...

Taxidermy....

Priestess are great and this video is awesome.



Reminds me of the third act of this movie...

Alex Chilton

Because you never travelled far, without a little Big Star...
Take Care
September Gurls
Mod Lang (unissued single mix)

RIP Mark Linkous

"It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today. We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There's a heaven and there's a star for you." - The Linkous Family

Very sad news... Sparklehorse were an amazing band and Mark Linkous wrote some devastatingly beautiful songs.

Sick Of Goodbyes
Happy Man (Memphis Version)

parting of the ways

I was tempted to include Greg Kihn here, but this will do for now.

The Knight Brothers - I'm Never Gonna Live It Down
Jean Stanback - I Still Love You
Tindersticks - Tiny Tears (BBC Session)
The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted (Live, Philadelphia 1996.05.28)
Soulsavers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Centro-Matic - For New Starts
Gerald Collier - Boozin' Time

Death Comes To Town

This starts tonight on CBC.... I can't believe dave Foley still looks good* in drag.
Trying not to let me expectations get too high.





*looks like a woman

closing out the year...

So, in no particular order here are some of this year's tunes that floated to the top of my playlists

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Do You Love Me Like You Say You Do
My Latest Novel - The Greatest Shakedown
Obits - Fake Kinkade
New Ruins - Lake
Priestess - Lady Killer
The Motorleague - Fossils
John Vanderslice - D.I.A.L.O.
I Was A King - Norman Bleik (can Teenage Fanclub sue for this?)
Hildur Gudnadottir - Erupting Light
Fanfarlo - Drowning Men (acoustic version)
Dead Man's Bones - Name In Stone (Live Version) (stuck in my head more than any other song this year)
Dark Night Of The Soul - Daddy's Gone
The Breeders - The Last Time (Best Mark Lanegan appearance of the year)
Black Moth Super Rainbow - American Face Dust
Benjy Ferree - Fear
Big Star - Life Is White (Demo) (Keep An Eye On The Sky is pretty much the perfect box set)
Bear In Heaven - Deafening Love
BEAK> - Blagdon Lake

For 2010 I'm looking forward to these:
Tindersticks - Black Smoke
Ted Leo - Even Heroes Have to Die

And hoping for something new/touring throught my town by the reunited Rival Schools - Accept The Compliment (and the reunited Soundgarden for that matter)